Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book." So next week Kay Summersby's Eisenhower Was My Boss will be published. It is the story of her life from 1942 to the end of the war as chauffeur, aide and secretary to General Ike. Written from notes and memory, and whipped out with the help of a professional writer, it is a lively, garrulous, gossipy addition to the war's memoirs...
...turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide to postpone the issue for a year...
Formed in 1940 by one Abraham Stern as a terrorist weapon against the British, it had committed such deeds before. During the war, Stern offered to help the Axis invade the Middle East if they would recognize the Sternists as Palestine's government. In 1944 the Sternists murdered Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East...
...mediator. From Stockholm, Countess Bernadotte spoke to her husband's aide by shortwave radio. Said she: "Give my best to Ralph Bunche. I know what he meant to my husband." Said Mrs. Bunche in Manhattan: "I feel very sad about this appointment ... I can't help but have fears for him as long as he's in that troublesome zone...
...housewife, Mitty González is confidante and adviser to most of Chile's other housewives. In her office at La Moneda (Chile's White House) she puts in a seven-hour day answering the hundreds of letters they write, asking her for everything from recipes to help in finding a new house. One correspondent recently begged for the President's old brown suit so that her husband could go on a religious pilgrimage...